Asa Kasher

Asa Kasher was born in 1940 in Jerusalem

Asa Kasher was born in Jerusalem on June 6, 1940. His father was the writer Shimon Kasher, and his grandfather was the Talmud scholar Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher. As a young man he was close to his grandfather and helped edit his writings.

He attended Ironi Alef High School in Tel Aviv and served in an IDF intelligence unit. He studied mathematics at the Hebrew University and finished a master's degree in 1963. He completed a doctorate in philosophy of language in 1971 under Yehoshua Bar-Hillel.

He taught at Bar-Ilan University and then at Tel Aviv University, where he became a full professor in 1979. His research covers the pragmatics of language and professional ethics. He also taught military ethics at IDF colleges from 1980.

In 1971 he co-founded the journal Philosophia and edited it from 1975 to 2022. His editorship ended in 2022 after the journal published an article with antisemitic content, which was later retracted. He received the Israel Prize for philosophy in 2000.